(October 4, 2018 at 12:56 pm)polymath257 Wrote:(October 4, 2018 at 12:35 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: So then survival or more specifically propagating DNA is the basis of morality? This "just so" story, doesn't tell you what ought to be, but only what was most successful in furthering their genetic line. I don't think that you can equate morality to survival of the fittest, and sometimes that includes the immoral.
Once again, I didn't say that. I said that our moral sense is because that sense increased our survival. Do you see the difference?
So morality is separate and apart from what helps us survive.... I would agree to that. I don't understand why you keep bringing up evolution though if it's not relevant to the ontology of morality.
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